Dad's Maybe Book
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.
A moving audio edition of Tim O'Brien's poignant memoir, read by the author
"We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow, and then another, until the last line of the last page receives its period."
In 2003, already an older father, National Book Award–winning novelist Tim O'Brien resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him—a few scraps of paper signed "Love, Dad." Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their rapidly aging father, a man they might never really know. For the next fifteen years, the author talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what they might want to hear from a father who was no longer among the living.
O'Brien traverses the great variety of human experience and emotion, moving from soccer games to warfare to risqué lullabies, from alcoholism to magic shows to history lessons to bittersweet bedtime stories, but always returning to a father's soul-saving love for his sons.
The result is Dad's Maybe Book, a funny, tender, wise, and enduring literary achievement that will squeeze the reader's heart with joy and recognition.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Tim O'Brien. (2019). Dad's Maybe Book. Unabridged HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Tim O'Brien. 2019. Dad's Maybe Book. HarperAudio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Tim O'Brien, Dad's Maybe Book. HarperAudio, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Tim O'Brien. Dad's Maybe Book. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2019.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 0 |
| Lafayette Public Library | 0 | 0 |
OverDrive Product Record
- sortTitle
- Dads Maybe Book
- crossRefId
- 4848275
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{D0E8D634-4D17-4FDC-BB33-6858A7FC90DE}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{D0E8D634-4D17-4FDC-BB33-6858A7FC90DE}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/{D0E8D634-4D17-4FDC-BB33-6858A7FC90DE}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/{D0E8D634-4D17-4FDC-BB33-6858A7FC90DE}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780358172352
- type: KoboAudioID
- value: houghtonmifflinharcourt_audio#9780358172352
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- id: audiobook-mp3
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780358172352
- type: KoboAudioID
- value: houghtonmifflinharcourt_audio#9780358172352
- name: OverDrive Listen
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Tim O'Brien
- id
- D0E8D634-4D17-4FDC-BB33-6858A7FC90DE
- title
- Dad's Maybe Book
- starRating
- 3.9
- dateAdded
- 2020-09-15T17:15:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=114&titleID=4848275
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Front Range Downloadable Library (CO)
- id: 1100
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- duration: 12:18:57
- fileName: DadsMaybeBook_9780358172352_4848275
- partCount: 11
- fileSize: 351908720
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780358172352
- type: 8
- value: houghtonmifflinharcourt_audio#9780358172352
- rights:
- type: PlayOnPC
- value: 1
- type: PlayOnPCCount
- value: -1
- type: BurnToCD
- value: 1
- type: BurnToCDCount
- value: -1
- type: PlayOnPM
- value: 1
- type: TransferToSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferToNonSDMI
- value: 1
- type: TransferCount
- value: -1
- type: CollaborativePlay
- value: 0
- type: PublicPerformance
- value: 0
- type: TranscodeToAAC
- value: 1
- name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-mp3
- onSaleDate: 10/14/2019
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0874-1/4848275-Dad'sMaybeBook.mp3
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d0e8d634-4d17-4fdc-bb33-6858a7fc90de&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- duration: 12:13:03
- fileName: DadsMaybeBook-22
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 351864367
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780358172352
- type: 8
- value: houghtonmifflinharcourt_audio#9780358172352
- name: OverDrive Listen
- isReadAlong: False
- id: audiobook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 10/14/2019
- samples:
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-mp3
- url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0874-1/4848275-Dad'sMaybeBook.mp3
- source: Part 1
- formatType: audiobook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d0e8d634-4d17-4fdc-bb33-6858a7fc90de&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: family
- value: relationships
- value: politics
- value: Vietnam
- value: Biography
- value: War
- value: parenting
- value: mindfulness
- value: autobiographies
- value: memories
- value: children
- value: dad
- value: father
- value: Child Development
- value: Autobiography
- value: Military
- value: discipline
- value: Memoirs
- value: Fatherhood
- value: Short Stories
- value: Drama
- value: Son
- value: Gift Books
- value: attachment
- value: Vietnam War
- value: biographies
- value: essay collection
- value: Nostalgia
- value: Military History
- value: Veteran
- value: Essays
- value: memoir
- value: National Book Award
- value: Overcoming Adversity
- value: Attachments
- value: parenting books
- value: biographies and memoirs
- value: gifts for dad
- value: dad book
- value: political books
- value: national book award-winning author
- value: parenting book
- value: fathers day books
- value: fathers day gifts
- value: gifts for men
- value: military books
- value: books for dad
- value: father's day gifts
- value: dad books
- value: tim o'brien
- value: military history books
- value: war books
- value: father's day books
- value: grandpa gifts
- value: dad gifts
- value: biographies of famous people
- value: relationship books
- value: gifts for fathers day
- value: the things they carried
- value: gifts for a new father
- value: best dad gifts
- value: Going After Cacciato
- value: In the Lake of the Woods
- value: self-dsicovery
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: O'Brien, Tim
- bioText:
TIM O'BRIEN received the National Book Award for Going After Cacciato. Among his other books are The Things They Carried, Pulitzer Finalist and a New York Times Book of the Century, and In the Lake of the Woods, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing.
- name: Tim O'Brien
- role: Narrator
- fileAs: O'Brien, Tim
- bioText:
TIM O'BRIEN received the National Book Award for Going After Cacciato. Among his other books are The Things They Carried, Pulitzer Finalist and a New York Times Book of the Century, and In the Lake of the Woods, winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. He was awarded the Pritzker Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military writing.
- name: Tim O'Brien
- imprint
- HarperAudio
- publishDate
- 2019-10-14T00:00:00-04:00
- edition
- Unabridged
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- Dad's Maybe Book
- fullDescription
Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.
A moving audio edition of Tim O'Brien's poignant memoir, read by the author"We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow, and then another, until the last line of the last page receives its period."
In 2003, already an older father, National Book Award–winning novelist Tim O'Brien resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him—a few scraps of paper signed "Love, Dad." Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their rapidly aging father, a man they might never really know. For the next fifteen years, the author talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what they might want to hear from a father who was no longer among the living.
O'Brien traverses the great variety of human experience and emotion, moving from soccer games to warfare to risqué lullabies, from alcoholism to magic shows to history lessons to bittersweet bedtime stories, but always returning to a father's soul-saving love for his sons.
The result is Dad's Maybe Book, a funny, tender, wise, and enduring literary achievement that will squeeze the reader's heart with joy and recognition.- popularity
- 628
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BvwAAAA25/products/d0e8d634-4d17-4fdc-bb33-6858a7fc90de/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- d0e8d634-4d17-4fdc-bb33-6858a7fc90de
- starRating
- 3.9
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{D0E8D634-4D17-4FDC-BB33-6858A7FC90DE}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{D0E8D634-4D17-4FDC-BB33-6858A7FC90DE}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/{D0E8D634-4D17-4FDC-BB33-6858A7FC90DE}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/{D0E8D634-4D17-4FDC-BB33-6858A7FC90DE}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Biography & Autobiography
- value: Family & Relationships
- value: Military
- value: Nonfiction
- publishDateText
- 10/14/2019
- mediaType
- Audiobook
- shortDescription
Best-selling author Tim O'Brien shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humor, and rewards of raising two sons.
A moving audio edition of Tim O'Brien's poignant memoir, read by the author"We are all writing our maybe books full of maybe tomorrows, and each maybe tomorrow brings another maybe tomorrow, and then another, until the last line of the last page receives its period."
In 2003, already an older father, National Book Award–winning novelist Tim O'Brien resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had given to him—a few scraps of paper signed "Love, Dad." Maybe a word of advice. Maybe a sentence or two about some long-ago Christmas Eve. Maybe some scattered glimpses of their rapidly aging father, a man they might never really know. For the next fifteen years, the author talked to his sons on paper, as if they were adults, imagining what they might want to hear from a father...- sortTitle
- Dads Maybe Book
- crossRefId
- 4848275
- publisher
- HarperAudio
- bisacCodes
- code: BIO008000
- description: Biography & Autobiography / Military
- code: BIO026000
- description: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
- code: FAM020000
- description: Family & Relationships / Parenting / Fatherhood
